Jeff VanderMeer's Having Ecstatic Days

If you read this blog (or the zine) you know who Jeff VanderMeer is. I 'met' Jeff shortly after I decided to start the zine. Jeff and I were on a small press message board together for a while, and then he brought me over to the Night Shade Message Board.

Jeff has always been very energetic about what he's working on. When he was doing the Thackery Lambshead Disease Guide, Jeff was all over the place doing readings and signings. I think I first met Jeff face-to-face in Washington D.C. for World Fantasy in 2003. He was running guerrillia readings for the guide all over the convention. I even ran a Thackery reading at a Readercon for Jeff since he couldn't make it to Boston. His energy is contagious. It's hard to be in the same room with Jeff and not be excited about whatever he's got going on next.

And Jeff's supported the zine and my publishing pursuits. He was in issue #2, and was also in my anthology Logorrhea with a tour de force story that uses all the other words the other authors in the anthology had already used. It's quite an accomplishment; a mosiac story of seemingly disparate events, all melded together into one incredible world.

More importantly, Jeff has consolidated his online efforts and launched a new website recently. You can go to:

http://www.jeffvandermeer.com

And check it out for yourself. If for some reason you come here to read what I have to say and you don't know Mr. VanderMeer, please, please, please go to his site and learn a little more about the man. And if you're not sure where to start, dive into the Bantam edition of City of Saints and Madmen, you will not be disappointed.